Example sentences of "i [vb base] [vb pp] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad said , and it must have cost him a lot to say so little after he 'd been put down by me , ‘ I 've decided I want to be with Eva . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I 've decided I want to be a proper writer . |
| 3 | ‘ Because for some extremely tiresome reason I 've discovered I care about you . ’ |
| 4 | I 've lost what seems like the only control in my life . |
| 5 | I 've lost what seems like the only control in my life |
| 6 | Then he said , " Burgess is at home , and I 've asked him to report to you at the mortuary . |
| 7 | ‘ And I 've asked you to cover for the last half-hour — that was selfish of me . ’ |
| 8 | I 've seen what happens to nomes who stand in front of cars . |
| 9 | I 've seen him looking at you … but he looks at women that way . |
| 10 | I 've seen him crying like a child over a dead baby he carried in . |
| 11 | Teacher never had a moment 's peace with him , and I could n't count the number of times I 've seen him waiting outside the headmaster 's study . |
| 12 | I 've seen him play over the years er Mick , you know he 's er typical of player , we 've had him watched a few times this year , er scouts him er at Aston Villa , said he had a magnificent game . |
| 13 | I 've seen him talking to actors in the bar — he 's happy enough then — livelier than when he 's at home . |
| 14 | Now I 've seen him interfering with the smoke alarm now ! |
| 15 | I came over it below the farmhouse and hugged the side wall like I 've seen them do in the movies until I could peer round into the farmyard . |
| 16 | I 've seen them towing across the sky with Beecham 's Pills written on them er it was a familiar sight in Walsall at the time , and also sometimes they had a plane sky-writing and they used to write Rinso in smoke in the sky . |
| 17 | I 've seen them taken to the sea too and er have a job to round them up . |
| 18 | The last time I saw Leeds win a cup match was almost 3 years ago ( Aston Villa 4–1 ) and since then I 've seen them lose to the Scum ( *3 , Rangers , and Arsenal(*2) . |
| 19 | This is the best I 've seen them play for a long time Leicester |
| 20 | I 've seen them reported in the papers and on TV . |
| 21 | and er , she said my eyes really sparkled she said first time I 've seen them sparkle for a long while so I was right chuffed about that . |
| 22 | Fo to make sh little nappies for the baby that was just been born and no clothes ready or fo and I 've I 've seen her you know as poor as we were my mam would sit there was patching sheets and er but I 've seen them whipped off the bed and put on somebody 's bed while they were having a baby or whatever . |
| 23 | I 've seen her snap at people , I 've seen her behave rudely , but beneath all that there 's a streak of real kindness . ’ |
| 24 | I 've seen her shaking like a leaf . |
| 25 | And of course I 've seen her blazing in that dress of hers when she kicked off against someone . |
| 26 | And er I used to go myself quite a lot er when there were well when there were more than one coming up I 've seen me go into , down in the pullman train from here to er , well we had about five changes I think , fat father had it all marked out so as you changed at a certain place . |
| 27 | The sweat was running down your back all day and I 've seen me taken off my white clothes and hang them up and they were still wet when you come in the next day . |
| 28 | Lady , I 've seen you scuttle from the room as if your butt were on fire simply because I 've walked in . ’ |
| 29 | Now , you did once tell me , very very recently in fact , that you were the the father of this Council s with rather a contradiction in fact was that because I 've seen you trotting around the corridors of this er this Council and it you 're more like the baby of the Council than er than the father , but I I do bow to your superior knowledge of Councilling . |
| 30 | I 've seen it happen to a lot of good MDs that got fired . |